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As I was recently doing some Internet research I came across a genealogy chart for Barack Obama and to my surprise I found that Obama is not only distantly kin to Dick Cheney he is also distantly kin to George W. Bush and Harry Truman. The son of a Kenyan goat herder and American from Nebraska is distantly related to George Bush….how odd is that? Is it merely coincidence? If we go back far enough, 10 – 12 generations, are we all related somehow? I don’t think so. I’ve traced my family back through the late 1500’s and I find no blood ties to George Bush or Dick Cheney, thank God.

So, I started thinking. Does America have a ruling class? Can just anyone grow up to be president? Well, it doesn’t appear so.

Bush has more ties to European royalty than other president to date, having “blue blood” from both his paternal and maternal lines. His mother, Barbara Pierce Bush, is related to European royalty through the Pierce family, which also produced the fourteenth U.S. president, Franklin Pierce (1853-1857).

Harold Brooks-Baker of London’s Burke Peerage says Bush’s royal connections are startling. “Bush is closely related to every European monarch both on and off the throne,” Baker told American Free Press. According to another article Bush is also kin to the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Simeon Saxe-Cogurg, Gotha and the Spanish king, Juan Carlos.

“Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush have an unusually large number of royal and noble descents,” Baker said during the election campaign of 2000. “In point of fact, never in the history of the United States have two presidential candidates been as well endowed with royal alliances.”

Brooks-Baker also claims that the presidential candidate with the most European royal bloodlines has won every U.S. presidential election since george Washington.

There has always been a significant “royalty factor” in those who aspired to the White House, with Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, among some 30 other presidents, all boasting blue blood links.

Below is the list of presidents related to royalty:

· George Washington (descendant of Edward III of England)· Thomas Jefferson (descendant of Edward III of England)· James Madison (descendant of Edward I of England)· John Quincy Adams (descendant of Edward III of England)· William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison (descendants of Edward I of England)· Zachary Taylor (descendant of Edward I of England)· Franklin Pierce (descendant of Henry I of England)· Rutherford Hayes (descendant of David I of Scotland)· Grover Cleveland (descendant of Edward I of England)· Theodore Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)· William Taft (descendant of Edward I of England)· Warren Harding (descendant of Ethelred II of England)· Calvin Coolidge (descendant of Henry II of England)· Herbert Hoover (descendant of John of England)· Franklin Roosevelt (descendant of Edward III of England)· Gerald Ford (descendant of Edward I of England)· George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush (descendants of Edward I of England and Afonso I of Portugal)

Not only are the ruling class related to royalty, but are related to each other.

· Zachary Taylor: second cousin of James Madison

· Millard Fillmore: fourth cousin three times removed of John Adams, fifth cousin twice removed of John Quincy Adams

· Benjamin Harrison: fifth cousin once removed of John Tyler (his grandfather, President William Harrison, was a fourth cousin once removed of Tyler)

· Theodore Roosevelt: third cousin three times removed of Martin Van Buren

· William Taft: fourth cousin five times removed of John Adams, fifth cousin four times removed of John Quincy Adams, sixth cousin once removed of Millard Fillmore, eighth cousin once removed of Rutherford Hayes, fifth cousin once removed of James Garfield, sixth cousin once removed of Grover Cleveland, seventh cousin of Benjamin Harrison

· Calvin Coolidge: third cousin six times removed of John Adams, fourth cousin five times removed of John Quincy Adams, sixth cousin four times removed of Millard Fillmore, sixth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin twice removed of Ulysses Grant, sixth cousin twice removed of James Garfield, ninth cousin once removed of Benjamin Harrison, seventh cousin once removed of William Taft

· Herbert Hoover: fifth cousin four times removed of Millard Fillmore, fourth cousin five times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin three times removed of James Garfield

· Franklin Roosevelt: fourth cousin three times removed of John Quincy Adams, third cousin four times removed of Martin Van Buren, half fourth cousin three times removed of Zachary Taylor, seventh cousin once removed of Millard Fillmore, sixth cousin twice removed of Franklin Pierce, fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant, sixth cousin once removed of Rutherford Hayes, half eighth cousin of Grover Cleveland, fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (although his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was a niece of Theodore), sixth cousin twice removed of William Taft, seventh cousin once removed of Calvin Coolidge

· George H. W. Bush: fourth cousin five times removed of Millard Fillmore, fifth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, sixth cousin five times removed of Ulysses Grant, sixth cousin three times removed of Rutherford Hayes, fourth cousin three times removed of James Garfield, seventh cousin twice removed of Grover Cleveland, seventh cousin three times removed of Theodore Roosevelt (also eighth cousin twice removed of Eleanor Roosevelt, a niece of Theodore), sixth cousin three times removed of William Taft, sixth cousin twice removed of Calvin Coolidge, tenth cousin of Herbert Hoover, sixth cousin three times removed of Franklin Roosevelt, ninth cousin four times removed of Richard Nixon, seventh cousin of Gerald Ford. Note that these relationships then also apply to George W. Bush, each an additional generation removed. SOURCE

Barack Obama, who many believe will become the 44th president, is kin to President George W. Bush, Senator Robert Byrd, Harry Truman and Dick Cheney. SOURCE

And you can add John McCain to the list of royally descended…and descended no less than from the same Scottish king as Obama.

John McCain, the Republican presidential contender, and Barack Obama, his Democrat rival, are both descended from the same Scottish king, it has been claimed.

According to research by an American genealogist, they share a common bloodline that can be traced to William I of Scotland, or William the Lion.

It was disclosed last year that Mr Obama was a descendant of the monarch who ruled Scotland from 1165 to 1214, and his background and upbringing spans the globe. SOURCE

There is much ado made about Barack Obama being a different kind of politician and the politician of change….but is he? How is it that once again the leading presidential candidate is part of the ruling class? It makes the fear of a Clinton “dynasty” laughable.

It appears that while the American Revolution was fought to break away from the rule of royalty, the U.S. merely established it’s own “royalty” and ruling class. I guess not all men are created equal.

My thanks to Golddigger of Capital Hill Forum for his contributions to the article.